Gendering disability and disabling gender:
Critical reflections on intersections of gender
and disability

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Discourses of normalcy are deeply imbricated
in the construction of the social world and
organise relations between persons, persons
and the State, persons and institutions and
intra-psychic relations. Conversely, discourses
about pathology and the abnormal underpin
the regulation and disciplining of subjectivities
intersected with ideas about race, gender,
sexuality, class, ethnicities, nationalisms,
and other identity vectors.

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